When younger, I’d dive off the cliffs at Johnson’s Shut-ins State Park in Missouri into the beautiful waters… maybe 20-25 feet.

To dive safely, you needed to dive OUT away from the rocks below, or you would die, and to hold your arms strong pointing down into the water so that your hands and arms ‘broke’ the water surface, not your head and neck, which would be the way to incur some kinda neck injury.

Enjoyed the video. Most of those ‘stunts’ are only possible because the people are physically very strong with extremely skilled muscles and muscle memory. Throw in a lot of ‘crazy’ and you got a successful show!

…and lots and lots of practice. My old gymnast brain & muscles wanted to try some of those… but I said NO! HELL-NO!

I went rapelling often in Colorado. I was racing a guy Australian style once and couldn’t figure out why I suddenly took such a lead on him. It’s because he started braking. I slammed into the ground so hard I bounced.

Michael and I saw guys like this Dan Osman climbing up sheer rock formations when we were camping in the Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite in 1985. I wonder if this Dan fella was doing some of that back then. Kinda sad that he died doing stuff in Yosemite in 1998, but maybe he died happy, huh…

Yeah, that’s the other side of this stuff Cathy. Dan Osman died doing this. In his day he was the undisputed master of free-style climbing; there was nobody better on the planet. But he laid it all out 100% every single time with no margin of error. Nobody performs 100% all the time. Dan was no exception. He left a daughter who will only know her father through video tapes.

There’s a nice little rocky hill/ dog park nearby that got rooned for evening enjoyment and dog walks. The high school kids discovered it and decided to use it as a party spot and smash bottles everywhere.